Tuesday 29 January 2019

2019 NPFL Match Day 6 fixtures

Sunday, February 3,

Group A:
MFM FC, Lagos vs Wikki Tourists
Enyimba vs Rivers United
Sunshine Stars vs Remo Stars
Katsina United vs Niger Tornadoes
Bendel Insurance vs Lobi Stars (pp)
Kwara United vs Enugu Rangers (pp)
Group B:
Akwa United vs Go Round FC
FC IfeanyiUbah vs Abia Warriors
Heartland vs Kada City
El-Kanemi Warriors vs Yobe Stars
Gombe United vs Plateau United
Kano Pillars vs Nasarawa United

Monday 28 January 2019

2019 NPFL Match Day 5 results, scorers

*Enugu Rangers 1 Enyimba 0
Ajani Ibrahim -40th minute

*Wikki Tourists 0 Sunshine Stars 1
Chibundu Amah-80th minute

*Rivers United 1 MFM FC, Lagos 0
Austin Opara (Own goal, 59th minute)

*Lobi Stars 3 Kwara United 0
Michael Stephen 10th minute
Yaya Kone -29th, 34th minute

*Remo Stars 2  Katsina United 0
Victor Mbaoma -3rd minute
Kingsley Akemini - 78th minute.
 

*Yobe Stars 1 Heartland 0
 James Odeh - 65th minute

*Kada Stars 0 FC IfeanyiUbah 1
Chibuike Eze -62nd minute

*Abia Warriors 0 Gombe United 0



*Niger Tornadoes 0 Bendel Insurance 0

*Plateau United 0 Kano Pillars 0



 
Monday, January 28

Go Round vs El-Kanemi Warriors

Nasarawa United vs Akwa United

Saturday 26 January 2019

2019 NPFL Match Day 5 fixtures

Sunday, January 27

Group A
Wikki Tourists   vs    Sunshine Stars
Niger Tornadoes  vs    Bendel Insurance
Rivers United    vs    MFM FC, Lagos
Lobi Stars           vs    Kwara United
Enugu Rangers   vs    Enyimba FC
Remo Stars       vs    Katsina United
Group B
Yobe Stars       vs    Heartland FC
Kada City        vs    FC Ifeanyi Ubah
Abia Warriors    vs    Gombe United
Nasarawa United  vs    Akwa United
Plateau United   vs    Kano Pillars
Go Round FC      vs    El-Kanemi Warriors

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2019 NPFL Match Day 4 results, scorers

*MFM Lagos 1 Enugu Rangers 0
Kabiru Adeniji (First half)

*Katsina United 1 Wikki Tourists
Sheriff Bashir

*Akwa United 2 Plateau United 2
Mfon Udoh -Akwa Utd (Brace)
Bernard Ovoke -Plateau Utd
Benjamin Turba-Plateau Utd

*Gombe United 2 Kano Pillars 0
Usman Musa
Babangida Ibrahim

*Heartland 1  Go Round FC 0
Okon Otop

*Abia Warriors 1 Kada City 0
Emeka Isaac

*FC IfeanyiUbah 1 Yobe Stars 0

*Sunshine Stars 1 Rivers United 1

*El-Kanemi Warriors 1 Nasarawa United 0

* Enyimba  0 Lobi Stars 0

*Bendel Insurance 0 Kwara United 0

*Niger Tornadoes 0 Remo Stars 0

Tuesday 22 January 2019

2019 NPFL Match Day 4 fixtures:

Wednesday, Jan. 23

Abia Warriors vs Kada City       
Akwa United  vs Plateau United       
B/Insurance   vs Kwara United       
El-Kanemi       vs Nasarawa United       
Enyimba          vs Lobi Stars       
FC Ifeanyi Ubah vs Yobe Stars       
Gombe Utd       vs Kano Pillars       
Heartland          vs Go Round       
Katsina Utd       vs Wikki Tourists       
MFM FC              vs Enugu Rangers       
Niger Tornadoes vs Remo Stars       
Sunshine Stars    vs Rivers United
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2019 NPFL Match Day 3 results, scorers

*Kwara United 3 Enyimba 2
Ibrahim Mustapha -Enyimba (16th minute)
Segun Alebiosu -Kwara Utd (31st minute)
Joseph Osadiaye -Enyimba (58th minute)
Segun Alebiosu  -Kwara Utd (61st minute)
Usman Mohamed -Kwara Utd (73rd minute)

*Remo Stars 1 Bendel Insurance 1
Charles Omokaro -Bendel (54th min)
Victor Mbaoma    -Remo   (76th min)

*Go Round 0 FC Ifeanyi Ubah 0   

*Kada City 2 Gombe United     1
Umar Mohammed -Kada (19th min)
Ibrahim Sani      -Gombe (20th min)
Sadiq Suleiman    -Kada  (43rd min)
   
*Kano Pillars 1 Akwa United    1
Ndifreke Effiong -Akwa Utd (13th min)
Chris Madaki      -Pillars       ( 41st min)

*Nasarawa United 0 Heartland 1
Samuel Nwosiri (15th min)
   
*Wikki Tourists 2 Niger Tornadoes 1
Aminu Ahmad - Wikki (46th min)
Abba Umar      -Wikki  (83rd min)
Ismaila Sarki   -Tornadoes (87th min)
   
*Plateau United 2 El-Kanemi   0
Saheed Jubril  (55th min)
Bernad Ovoke  (74th min)


*Rivers United 1 Katsina United 0
Ossy Martins (10th min)






Monday 14 January 2019

2019 NPFL Match Day 1 & 2 results, scorers

Matches played on January 13, 2019

*Kwara United 1 Sunshine Stars   1
Franklin Sasere-Kwara Utd (Own goal, 45+1 min)
Seun Olulayo -Sunshine (Own goal, 70th minute)

*Enyimba          2 MFM, Lagos      0
Nelson Ogbonnaya     -13th min
Abdulrahman Bashir -54th min

*Nasarawa United 1 Abia Warriors    0
Abdullahi Abubakar -20th min

*Kano Pillars      1 Heartland         0
Sunday Chinedu -16th min

*Akwa United    0 El-Kanemi Warriors 1

Ba'akaka Azikoro - 90+4 min

*Plateau United      0 FC IfeanyiUbah 0
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Caption: 

Ebenezer Odeyemi of Kwara United (right) fights for the ball with a player of Sunshine Stars, during their NPFL Match Day one opener in Ilorin, last Sunday.
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Match Day 2 results, scorers:

*MFM FC 2 Kwara United 0
Segun Alebiosu -Kwara Utd (Own goal, 48th min)
Adeniji Kabiru  -MFM (75th min)

*El-Kanemi 2 Kano Pillars 1 
 Bello Kofarmata  -El-Kanemi  (20th min)
Rabiu Ali -Pillars (45th min)
Rasaq Aliyu -El-Kanemi  (71st min)  

*Abia Warriors 1 Go Round 2  
Sadiq Ololade -Go Round (37th min)
Emeka Isaac -Abia  (69th min)
Emmanuel Ugwu-Go Round (92nd min)
    
*FC IfeanyiUbah 1 Nasarawa United 0
 Chijioke Alaekwe ((90+2 min)
    
*Heartland 3  Plateau United 0
 Efe Yarhere  (60th min).
Chinonso Okonkwo (79th, 87th min)
        
*Niger Tornadoes 1 Rivers United 1
Eric Frimpong -Tornadoes (66th min)
Ossy Martins -Rivers Utd (69th min)





Saturday 12 January 2019

Promoter, Warren, confident of Wilder, Fury rematch in US

Tyson Fury -- and not Anthony Joshua -- will fight Deontay Wilder at a U.S. venue in the first half of 2019, promoter Frank Warren has told ESPN.

Fury's promoter reckons a Las Vegas venue is most likely after December's controversial split-decision draw with WBC world heavyweight champion Wilder in Los Angeles.

Eddie Hearn, Warren's rival British promoter who guides the career of WBA-IBF-WBO world heavyweight champion Joshua, and his father Barry, head of Matchroom Sport, have not had any response to emails or phone calls from Wilder's team in their attempts to make a title unification fight with Joshua.
   
Warren dismissed Hearn's hopes and efforts in making Wilder-Joshua and says fight fans should instead expect a rematch this year between Briton Fury (27-0-1, 19 KOs) and American Wilder (40-0-1, 39 KOs).

"We're trying to make that fight at the moment, everyone wants the fight and most importantly the fighters want it," Warren told ESPN.

"The venue is looking like the U.S., that's where the money is. Tyson was disappointed with the judging with the last fight, as I was, so a lot of things need to be sorted but the U.S. is where they want it, probably in the second quarter.

"Vegas would be one of the options. I wouldn't want to go back to California, I didn't like working with the Californian commission and there were a lot of things we didn't like there.

"Tyson is already in the gym working hard, ticking over, and I think we would get it [the fight versus Wilder] before June.

"He [Eddie Hearn] says all these things, but what he says and does are two different things. He [Eddie Hearn] said he wanted the fight for Joshua with Wilder last year when there was $80m on the table, but it didn't happen.

"Joshua will fight Dillian Whyte [at Wembley Stadium, London, on April 13], or Jarrell Miller next. We all know that."

Warren says Fury would also be open to a possible fight against fellow Englishman Joshua (22-0, 21 KOs) later this year, despite the obstacles to making the fight such as rival promoters and UK television companies.

"We're not complicated, Tyson is the most uncomplicated person you will meet, and he will fight anyone," Warren told ESPN.

"He went to Germany to fight Wladimir Klitschko and he went to America to fight Wilder. It's Barry and Eddie Hearn's agenda that complicates it. Joshua is their cash cow and they want to keep milking it."

Fury claims he is still world heavyweight No. 1 -- the lineal champion -- because he is unbeaten and gave up the three belts (WBA, IBF and WBO) he won from Wladimir Klitschko on points in Nov. 2015.

Fury then did not fight again until June last year due to mental health problems, as well as serving a backdated doping ban after it was revealed he failed drugs test for the banned steroid nandrolone in February 2015.

After two warm-up fights, he came close to beating Wilder, controlling the bout at the Staples Centre and rising form the canvas after a heavy knockdown in the last round.

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Caption:


Tyson Fury (left) and Wilder, after their heavyweight bout last December.